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The government’s National Security Strategy correctly identified global risks but bureaucratic infighting and a weak economic position threaten the UK’s ability to ‘punch above its weight’ on the international stage

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Upon assuming power in May, the United Kingdom’s historic coalition government set in motion three exercises that together aimed to reshape British foreign policy. The new National Security Strategy, the Strategic Defence and Security Review and the Comprehensive Spending Review all seek to lay down the bounds of Britain’s future role in the world. A new report by Nicholas Kitchen and former diplomats examine asses the goals of Britain’s foreign policy and how they can be realised in an age of austerity.

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• Negocios y Economía›Economía

Prospects for reform?: the Iranian elections: assessing the candidates: ‘if the majority does not vote, the minority will govern’

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On Parkway Square in north Tehran is a large banner sponsored by a political party not supporting Ahmadinejad. It reads, ‘If the majority does not vote, the minority will govern.’ This sentence is part of the Islamic Republic’s campaign to obtain high voter turnout. It also has a subtle meaning aimed at the youth and urban populations which constitute an electoral majority and thus underscores a dynamic of the 2009 presidential elections, considered by many to be the most important election since 1989.

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• Negocios y Economía›Economía

The United States after unipolarity: the United States and international economic governance

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Among the unexpected outcomes of the global financial crisis of 2008-9 has been the end
of the domination of international economic governance by the U.S.US and other upperincome
countries through the forum of the G7, and its replacement by the G20. The depth and
breadth of the economic contraction required a broader response than the advanced economies
alone could provide, and its origin in financial markets in the United States undermined its
support for neoliberal policies.

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• Negocios y Economía›Economía

The Dearing Report and the government's response : a critique

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• Negocios y Economía

Corporate governance: remedying and ratifying directors' breaches

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Extent to which company may relax scope and content of directors' duties, whether it can exonerate directors who default on their duties and whether it can ratify actions of defaulting directors and determine remedy for breach of duty.

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• Negocios y Economía

"Disembedding" the city: crime, insecurity and spatial organization in Managua, Nicaragua

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This paper explores the emergence of a new pattern of spatial segregation linked to rising urban insecurity in Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua, during the past decade and a half.

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• Negocios y Economía

The role of democracy in Uganda's move to universal primary education

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In recent years several democratically elected African governments have abolished primary school fees following pledges made during presidential election campaigns. Among these cases, Uganda’s Universal Primary Education (UPE) program, launched in 1997, has received particular attention, due to the massive increase in primary school enrollment, as well the sustained increase in public spending on education that it has entailed. This paper asks whether the Ugandan government’s policies in this area can be explained by the prior establishment of competitive elections in 1996.

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• Negocios y Economía

Credible commitment in early modern Europe : north and Weingast revisited

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This paper proposes a revision to existing arguments that institutions of limited government (characterized by multiple veto points) improve the ability of governments to credibly commit. Focusing on the issue of sovereign indebtedness, I present a simple framework for analyzing credibility problems in an economy divided between owners of land and owners of capital.

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• Negocios y Economía

Higher education in Australia and Britain : what lessons?

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Both Britain and Australia have seen rapid, inadequately funded, expansion of student numbers, and increasing central planning. To address these problems, this paper argues (a) that students should pay via a system of income-contingent loans for the private benefits they derive from higher education, and (b) that, within a government-ordained regulatory framework, universities should be free to set fees and student numbers. In the wake of the Dearing Report in 1997, Britain is making progress on (a) by introducing income-contingent loans to cover student’s living costs.

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• Negocios y Economía

Private investment and political institutions

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Recent research has demonstrated a negative link between macroeconomic and political uncertainty and levels of private investment across countries. This raises the question whether certain types of government institutions might help reduce this uncertainty. North and Weingast (1989) propose that political institutions characterized by checks and balances can have beneficial effects on investment by allowing governments to credibly commit not to engage in ex post opportunism with respect to investors.

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• Negocios y Economía